From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0C3BC6C for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:44:24 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAACc4oEfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACQJwEBAQgKKZ88 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,278,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="8544483" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 30 Jan 2008 17:44:23 +0100 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m0UGiFtI006515 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:44:23 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAMY3oEdQW+UCh2dsb2JhbACQJwEBAQgKKZ87 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,278,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="21986136" Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) ([80.91.229.2]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 30 Jan 2008 17:44:22 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JKG2r-00031Y-4c for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:44:17 +0000 Received: from ks300734.kimsufi.com ([91.121.65.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:44:17 +0000 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:44:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: [OSR] Ports-like package management system Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <479F0664.2070706@exalead.com> <47A045C1.7030603@exalead.com> <871w7zgtpn.fsf@jehiel.elehack.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ks300734.kimsufi.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl2 (Debian) Sender: news X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47A0A95F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 ocaml:01 le-gall:01 wget:01 ocaml:01 tarballs:01 tarball:01 nightly:98 wrote:01 dependency:01 writes:01 referenced:02 tree:02 tree:02 declaration:02 On 30-01-2008, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > Sylvain Le Gall writes: >> Using a simple wget/rsync (you can redevelop it in OCaml) is far >> more simple than to use a VCS. > > To recap, my vision for this thing: > - Tree of build control and dependency declaration files, managed > with a DVCS, with end-user distribution (perhaps updated nightly > from the VCS) via rsync. > - Tarballs of upstream releases, published by upstream developers, > and cached by the distribution project (i.e. a "distfiles" > directory containing the sources for all software currently > referenced by the tree, perhaps with old versions also). > > Now, to test code against the tree, the developer checks out a local > copy of the metadata tree. They then go to the control files for > their project, and modify them to say "get the source from over here" > (adjusting version numbers, controls, etc. as appropriate). Then, > they build, and everything should work smoothly, with minimal hassle. > Yep, i like this idea. I think i will set up a ftp zone which should accept upstream tarball and put them into a standard location (as discussed in another post). This is a good first step, that makes sense... Regards, Sylvain Le Gall